Can't play video

[kaiotes]

i have my sandisk e250 rockboxed to most current version. but when i store a mp4 file to the video folder or any whereon the device, it does not play video, i only get audio play back.
how does one play video?

[froggyman]

they need to be mpeg-1

[LambdaCalculus]

Or MPEG-2 video.

[AlexP]

i have my sandisk e250 rockboxed to most current version. but when i store a mp4 file to the video folder or any whereon the device, it does not play video, i only get audio play back.
how does one play video?

As has been pointed out, they need to be MPEG1/2.  See www.rockbox.org/wiki/PluginMpegplayer for details.

[ArPy]

I am using an iPod video, and I am having problems with it too. I get a plug-in error. I put the MPEG-1 video onto the player using winamp, and open with the player, but it doesn't seem to want to work.

[GodEater]

How did you convert the video to Mpeg-1 ?

[ArPy]

I converted from avi to mpeg-1 using TMPGEnc

[Didgeridoohan]

I converted from avi to mpeg-1 using TMPGEnc

Several are suggested on the wiki-page for the mpeg player plugin.

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/PluginMpegplayer

Personally I find that WinFF works great.

Edit (gevaerts): removed references to previous (deleted) post